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Starting Up Smart & Trade Secrets – Startup Security Weekly #43

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The six secrets to starting smart, a startup’s guide to protecting trade secrets, knowing what your customers value, and more startup articles for discussion! Full Show NotesVisit http://securityweekly.com/category/ssw/ for all the latest episodes! http://traffic.libsyn.com/sswaudio/Startup_articles_and_Discussion_Startup_Security_Weekly_43_converted.mp3 Continue reading Starting Up Smart & Trade Secrets – Startup Security Weekly #43→

Hackaday Links: April 23, 2017

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‘Member StarCraft? Ooooh, I ‘member StarCraft. The original game and the Brood War expansion are now free. A new patch fixes most of the problems of getting a 20-year-old game working and vastly improves playing over LAN (‘member when you could play video games over a LAN?) And you thought you were going to have free time this week.

About a year ago, [Mark Chepurny] built a dust boot for his Shapeoko CNC router. The SuckIt (not the best possible name, by the way) is an easy, simple way to add dust collection to an X-Carve or Shapeoko 2. The …read more

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Trademarking Makerspace (Again)

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A British company has filed a trademark application for the word ‘MakerSpace’. While we’ve seen companies attempt to latch on to popular Maker phrases before, Gratnells Limited, the company in question, is a manufacturer of plastic containers, carts, and other various storage solutions. These products apparently provide a space to store all the stuff you make. Something along those lines.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen someone try to glom onto the immense amount of marketing Make: has put into the term ‘makerspace’. In 2015, UnternehmerTUM MakerSpaceGmbH, an obviously German tech accelerator based in Munich, filed an application to …read more

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